The Runaway Universe
The Race to Discover the Future of the Cosmos
Published on 7. December 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-7382-0429-1 (ISBN)
Description
For decades, astronomers have sought to discover the ultimate fate of the universe. Will the cosmos continue forever in its expansion, which began billions of years ago with the big bang? Or will gravity someday reverse the process, producing a "big crunch?" Two groups of astronomers have recently announced a discovery that seems to resolve the issue but that also shakes the science of cosmology to its very foundation: the expansion of the universe appears to be accelerating. The Runaway Universe is the story of these astronomers who have stood the world of cosmology on its ear-and of their competitive race to discover the future of the universe.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Boulder
United States
Publishing group
INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
394 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7382-0429-1 (9780738204291)
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Donald Goldsmith received his Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of California at Berkeley in 1969. The author or co-author of more than a dozen books on astronomy and astrophysics, he has received lifetime achievement awards for astronomy popularization from the American Astronomical Society and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.